Patient Portals – An essential element for Meaningful Use Stage 2

1. Patient Portals – An essential element
for Meaningful Use Stage 2
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2. EHRs
• One of the biggest advantages of using an Electronic
Health Record (EHR) software is that it allows
physicians, providers, healthcare centers and
hospitals to meaningfully interact with each other
• They allow the patients to view and receive lab
results, view online summaries of care, enter/update
demographic information, schedule appointments,
send messages and see their medical histories all in
one centralized location

3. Security
• Security, encryption and data protection are such
elements of patient portals which need to be kept in
check by both EHR software vendors and healthcare
providers
• The patients want to access the portals to view their
information and must be allowed to keep passwords
which are simple and easy to remember
• One of the requirements of HIPAA is that patient
portals should be able to give patients their
information in the format they require

4. Patient portal
• Patient portals serve as a great means to increase
patient engagement and improve level of patient
satisfaction, which in turn, allows the physicians to
be qualified for Meaningful Use incentives, profits in
the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) model and
many others

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